Legislative Branch, Day 2 - Class Recap

This image of the US Capitol Building is actually the background for this blog! Photo taken in 2010.

Dear class,

Welcome back from Spring Break! We checked in about what we were up to and went over your Bill of Rights Quiz scores! We also started up with looking at the Oregon congressional delegation. Here's the recap for today:

Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 2: I can demonstrate an understanding of the role of governments in current issues.
Knowledge LT 5: I can demonstrate an understanding of the principles, structures, and functions of different levels of U.S. government.

Soundtrack: "Represent" by Weezer. Selected for today because we started learning about who your representatives in Congress are. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 4/3/17:
News Brief – Mr. Fritz
Review Quiz
Oregon Reps in Congress
Work Time

Homework: Read the blog. Finish the Oregon representatives handout. Next news brief: Terra.

News Brief: I had the news brief today and selected this article to talk about: NPR.org - The Senate Could Go 'Nuclear' This Week. What Does That Mean? I talked for a while about how President Trump's selection of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia has proceeded, and why many Democrats are opposing his nomination. At this point, it sounds like Republicans will need to change the rules of the Senate to confirm Mr. Gorsuch.

After the news brief, we talked about what we were up to over Spring Break. I showed some of my photos from South Korea! :-)

Terra was randomly selected for the next news brief.

Review Quiz: After the news, we talked about the Bill of Rights test from last class. We went through the answers together. If you need to retake this (or any other quiz/test), let's figure out a time outside of class to do this. Updated grades are posted on StudentVUE.

Oregon Representatives: Next, it was time to learn more about who serves Oregon as representatives in Congress at the federal level. Here is the handout that I passed out in class (it is also on Google Classroom):

Google Drive - Oregon Representatives in Congress Handout

The main point here is to know who our representatives are and what they believe. It is important that we know who represents us in Congress, and what their ideas are!

Work Time: For the rest of the class, we were working on Chromebooks and on paper copies (if needed), working on the Oregon representatives handout.

Thanks for your work on this! See you next class, when we will be creating legislation of our own!